Plasma induced laser beam smoothing below the filamentation threshold
Plasma induced laser beam smoothing below the filamentation threshold
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等离子体诱导激光束平滑至丝化阈值以下
DOI:
10.1063/1.2337791
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发表时间:
2006
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
S. Weber
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作者:
M. Grech;V. Tikhonchuk;G. Riazuelo;S. Weber
This paper deals with a statistical approach for description of the laser field interaction with underdense plasmas and modification of the laser beam temporal coherence during its propagation through a plasma at power well below the filamentation threshold. The main properties of the plasma density perturbations driven by a randomized laser beam are derived from a stochastic wave equation. The laser spectral and angular broadening is shown to occur on a distance that depends essentially on the ratio of the average power in a speckle to the critical power for filamentation. The coherence time of the transmitted light is reduced to the plasma acoustic time of response to the laser. It is typically a few picoseconds. Dedicated diagnostics have been developed for the interaction code PARAX in order to analyze the laser and plasma statistical properties. The effect of the plasma length on the transmitted light coherence is found to be in good agreement with theoretical predictions. Forward stimulated Brilloui...